Thomas j. Howley

Golddigger: The Legendary Nellie Cashman

By Kathleen Morris - Published 2023

Genres:

Biographical FictionWestern

When Nellie Cashman is five years old, she, her mother, and sister flee the great famine in Ireland to come to Boston. There ...Read Review

The Ballad of Lord Edward and Citizen Small

By Neil Jordan - Published 2023

Genres:

Literary

This novel begins grittily on an American Revolutionary War battlefield, where an escaped former slave, Tony Small, first makes the acquaintance of British ...Read Review

The Celtic Deception (A Jump in Time, 2)

By Andrew Varga - Published 2023

Genres:

Children/Young AdultHistorical FantasyTime-slip

Dan Renfrew is a seventeen-year-old time jumper. To say Dan’s life is dangerous, complicated, and hyper-adventurous for a teenager would be an ...Read Review

The Long March Home

By Marcus Brotherton - By Tosca Lee - Published 2023

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Jimmy “Prop” Propfield, Hank Wright, and Billy Crockett are three teenage friends growing up around Mobile, Alabama at the end of the 1930s. ...Read Review

A Shadow in Moscow

By Katherine Reay - Published 2023

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In late 1944 in Nazi-occupied Vienna, Ingrid loses her Austrian father and English mother to the occupiers when they determine the couple isn’t ...Read Review

Eye Brother Horn

By Bridget Pitt - Published 2023

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In 1870s South Africa, Daniel and Moses are raised as brothers in a Church of England mission in Zululand. Daniel is the biological ...Read Review

Piano Days

By Don Reid - Published 2022

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Small-town life in America for teenagers in the late 1950s and very early 1960s may seem a world away to some, though there ...Read Review

One Brilliant Flame

By Joy Castro - Published 2023

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Between 1886 and 1898, Key West, Florida, is a bustling city primarily because of its prodigious cigar business. The small island is also home to ...Read Review

Grizzly Moon

By Patrick Dearen - Published 2023

Genres:

Western

During a hunting expedition in Texas in 1880, Wash Baker tragically and mistakenly kills his son in a shooting accident on a dark and ...Read Review

The Rice Birds

By Lindy Keane Carter - Published 2022

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In 1849, Nora and Claire Murphy, indentured servants during the height of the Great Hunger, make the crossing to the United States aboard one ...Read Review